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What Is Zonal Architecture? And Why Is it Upending the Automotive Supply Chain?

Earlier this week I wrote about the electric vehicle (EV) transition, how it is happening…

Paul McLellan
• 7 min read
ota , Automotive , tier-1 , featured , zonal architecture

The Automotive Electric Vehicle Transition

The only really interesting part of the automotive industry is the electric vehicle…

Paul McLellan
• 8 min read
Automotive , Electrification , featured , ev , nev

Richard Goering, 1952-2023

I have some sad news to report. Richard Goering passed away last month at the age…

Paul McLellan
• 3 min read
featured , Richard Goering , EETimes
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Ten Lessons from Three Generations of Google TPUs

In my post about the big trends from this year's HOT CHIPS, I mentioned a paper from…

• 7 min read
tpu , data center , google

Sunday Brunch Video for 19th September 2021

https://youtu.be/LuFCfy3aNbI Made with Lumen5 by me Monday: On-Device Artificial…

• less than a min read
sunday brunch

HOT CHIPS: The Big Trends

Two big trends that are no surprise, they were big at HOT CHIPS last year and for…

• 5 min read
Memory , deep learning , advanced packaging , hot chips , thermal , AI

HOT CHIPS: Two Big Beasts

Today, I'm covering two of the biggest chips presented at the recent HOT CHIPS. Ponte…

• 3 min read

Pegasus Flies into the GF Technology Summit

Today is the GF Technology Summit, what used to be called GTC in previous years.…

• 5 min read
pegasus , gf , GlobalFoundries

How to Build a Data Center: It's All About the SerDes...and Thermal

Okay, you are probably not going to have to build a data center. But you might well…

• 5 min read
Ethernet , PCIe , hyperscale , SerDes , datacenter

On-Device Artificial Intelligence the Tensilica Way

This morning, at a workshop at the AI Hardware Summit, Cadence is laying out details…

• 3 min read
artificial intelligence , deep learning , inference , Tensilica , neural networks

Sunday Brunch Video for 12th September 2021

https://youtu.be/7gCLOVo1XQQ Made at Tesla Factory, Fremont (camera Ziyue Zhang…

• less than a min read
sunday brunch

Cadence in Brazil

How much do you know about Brazil? Probably, like me, not that much. And most of…

• 4 min read
Cadence Academic Network , belo horizonte , sbmicro , cadence brazil , brazil

New Cerebrus Webinar This Month

Cerebrus is Cadence's new machine learning-enabled digital design environment. When…

• 2 min read

NOT CHIPS: Tesla's Project Dojo

Nope, NOT CHIPS is not a misprint. Tesla didn't present at HOT CHIPS. But they did…

• 5 min read
project dojo , dojo , tesla

HOT CHIPS: The Next-Generation of General-Purpose Compute

At the recent HOT CHIPS, the first day opened with the chips that you first think…

• 5 min read
Intel , AMD , ponte vecchio , IBM , hot chips

Offtopic: Typography

When people ask me how I made the transition to being a writer, I can only say "it…

• 5 min read
offtopic , printing

AI Hardware Summit 2021 Preview

The AI Hardware Summit is coming up on September 13-16. It will take place in-person…

• 4 min read
artificial intelligence , Tensilica , ai hardware summit

HOT CHIPS: A Display in Your Contact Lens

Is augmented reality (AR) going to be the next big thing? Tim Cook, CEO of Apple…

• 4 min read
contact lens , mojo , alternative reality

CadenceLIVE India 2021: Ten Reasons to Attend

On September 7 and 8, it is CadenceLIVE India. It will be a digital event. Let me…

• 5 min read
cadencelive , cadencelive india

Sunday Brunch Video for 29th August 2021

https://youtu.be/kC1SNcAmVWg Made in Levi's Stadium (camera Gary Bengier) Monday…

• less than a min read
sunday brunch

August Update: Stevies, Sales, Mars, Hacking Hotels, and More

Can you believe that it's the last Friday in August already? So, time for another…

• 4 min read
van gogh , SIA , tesla , stevies , update , Mars

A History of Timing Signoff

Today, when all timing signoff is done using static timing analysis with a tool such…

• 5 min read
Tempus , STA , static timing , gate level simulation

"I'm Doing an Operating System, Just a Hobby, Won't Be Big and Professional"

30 years ago today, August 25, 1991, an unknown Finnish student sent out what has…

• 3 min read
git , linus torvalds , linux

HOT CHIPS: Esperanto's Dave Ditzel and 1000 Minions

At HOT CHIPS this morning, Dave Ditzel of Esperanto is presenting their latest chip…

• 5 min read
minion , risc-v , esperanto , maxion , hot chips

CadenceLIVE: Xilinx's Thunder-Bus

At CadenceLIVE Americas in June, Raghukul presented on Thunder-Bus, a low-latency…

• 2 min read
protium x2 , Protium , xilinx

Rowhammer: Beating DRAM into Submission

Way back in 2014, a DRAM vulnerability called Rowhammer was revealed. This is a silicon…

• 5 min read
security , ddr5 , Memory , DDR4 , JEDEC , DRAM , rowhammer

Tensilica ConnX B10 in GF 22FDX for Automotive Grade 1

At CadenceLIVE Americas back in June, GlobalFoundries presented a case study on using…

• 4 min read
adaptive body bias , 22fdx , abb , gf , GlobalFoundries , FD-SOI

BlackHat: Hacking a Capsule Hotel—Ghost in the Bedrooms

Security conferences always seem to have at least one interesting presentation that…

• 6 min read
security , blackhat

Aerospace and Defense Day

At the end of July, Cadence had its CadenceCONNECT Aerospace and Defense Day. For…

• 4 min read
A&D , RF , celsius , 3D-IC , awr , Analysis , thermal , aerospace & defense , Custom IC , clarity

Sunday Brunch Video for 8th August 2021

https://youtu.be/_dRTQm0DyG0 Made in New York City (camera Carey Guo) Monday: Intel…

• less than a min read
sunday brunch

Offtopic: Today You, Tomorrow Me

It is the last day before a break and so I write about whatever I feel like. It's…

• 7 min read
offtopic
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